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		<title>Semantic Web Technology for SEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Getty Images via Daylife Since the early days of Sematic Web I have been expecting that this technology would become very important for Search Engine Optimization. Until recently, however, the most important component for this to happen has been missing: the major search engines completely ignored RDF and other semantically enriched markup. This [...]]]></description>
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<p>Since the early days of Sematic Web I have been expecting that this technology would become very important for <a class="zem_slink" title="Search engine optimization" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization">Search Engine Optimization</a>.</p>
<p>Until recently, however, the most important component for this to happen has been missing: the major search engines completely ignored RDF and other semantically enriched markup.</p>
<p>This as changed now finally Yahoo and, more recently, <a href="http://squio.nl/blog/2009/05/25/next-phase-for-semweb-take-up/">Google announced to analyze and index</a> rich mark up like <a class="zem_slink" title="microformats" rel="homepage" href="http://microformats.org/">microformats</a> and <a class="zem_slink" title="RDFa" rel="homepage" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/">RDFa</a>.</p>
<p>Just today I stumbled upon a nice article by the <a href="http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/">E-business and Web Science Research Group</a> of the <a class="zem_slink" title="Universität der Bundeswehr München" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A4t_der_Bundeswehr_M%C3%BCnchen">Universität der Bundeswehr München</a> titled <a href="http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey">GoodRelations and Yahoo SearchMonkey</a> with five very practical examples how to enhance your web pages for better relevance in the Yahoo search index.<br />
They make use of RDFa and the <a title="An ontology for linking product descriptions and business entities on the Web" href="http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/">GoodRelations Web Ontology</a>.</p>
<p>This is all very exciting and I expect way more to come!</p>
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		<title>Biggest business advantage for Google Wave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 10:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by liako via Flickr Alexander van Elsas compiled an excellent list of 10 reasons why Google just reinvented online communication. You should read that blog post now, if you haven&#8217;t already! I do agree that Google does Wave the right way &#8211; it&#8217;s all about openness, Alexander&#8217;s points 2 and 3 should make most [...]]]></description>
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<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Alexander van Elsas" rel="homepage" href="http://vanelsas.wordpress.com">Alexander van Elsas</a> compiled an excellent list of <a href="http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/10-reasons-why-google-just-reinvented-online-communication/">10 reasons why Google just reinvented online communication</a>. You should read that blog post now, if you haven&#8217;t already!</p>
<p>I do agree that Google does <a href="http://wave.google.com/">Wave</a> <em>the right way</em> &#8211; it&#8217;s all about openness, Alexander&#8217;s points 2 and 3 should make most critical users and developers happy.</p>
<p>But then Google still has the business advantage of having all aggregated data in their silo&#8217;s &#8211; they will be the <em>exclusive</em> owner of virtually <em>all communication data in the world</em>. This gives them enormous business advantages in terms of finding out what people are discussing, right now. All this can be put in perspective with <a class="zem_slink" title="Data mining" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining">data mining</a> of all previous communication. The logical exploitation is ever more <a class="zem_slink" title="Targeted advertising" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_advertising">targeted advertising</a> (adding location, local time, mood, communication partners and such to the expression). But being able to watch real time trends in high resolution, <a class="zem_slink" title="Granularity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granularity">fine grained</a> up to the user level in the context of their <a class="zem_slink" title="Social network" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network">social network</a> will likely enable entirely new business models, which we can not even imagine right now.</p>
<p>Does this matter for the individual user?<br />
Maybe, privacy is potentially at risk even more than it is now. Whatever will happen, great power comes with great responsibility and the slogan &#8220;do not evil&#8221; applies more than ever before.</p>
<p>At the same time I&#8217;m really excited to see this happen and will most likely join Wave as soon as it becomes available.</p>
<p>What did <a class="zem_slink" title="Scott McNealy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy">Scott McNealy</a> say again? &#8220;<a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538">You have zero privacy anyway, get over it</a>&#8221; . And that was ten yars ago.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via CrunchBase Please note, this blog post is in Dutch (translate). Mijn eerste indrukken na een paar dagen spelen met de Android powered HTC G1 (door T-Mobile ook wel &#8220;Googlephone&#8221; genoemd). Voornamelijk vanuit de mogelijkheden op internet gebied, en vergeleken met mijn oude Sony Ericsson 810i (SE). Direct bij het eerste opstarten krijg je [...]]]></description>
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<p>Please note, this blog post is in Dutch (<a title="Courtesy Google Translate" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&amp;hl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fsquio.nl%2Fblog%2F2009%2F02%2F03%2Fgoogle-android-op-t-mobile-g1-eerste-indruk%2F&amp;sl=nl&amp;tl=en">translate</a>).</p>
<p>Mijn eerste indrukken na een paar dagen spelen met de <em><a href="http://code.google.com/android/">Android</a> powered</em> <a class="zem_slink" title="High Tech Computer Corporation" rel="homepage" href="http://www.htc.com">HTC</a> G1 (door T-Mobile ook wel &#8220;<a class="zem_slink" title="Android" rel="homepage" href="http://code.google.com/android/">Googlephone</a>&#8221; genoemd). Voornamelijk vanuit de mogelijkheden op internet gebied, en vergeleken met mijn oude <a class="zem_slink" title="Sony Ericsson" rel="homepage" href="http://www.sonyericsson.com">Sony Ericsson</a> 810i (<em>SE</em>).</p>
<p>Direct bij het eerste opstarten krijg je een melding dat de telefoon het best (of alleen maar?) met een google account gebruikt kan worden. Ik heb niet geprobeerd wat er wel/niet mogelijk is <em>zonder</em> google account, maar ben meteen ingelogd met mijn <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Apps" rel="homepage" href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html">Google Apps</a> account.</p>
<p><strong>Adresboek en agenda</strong><br />
Het blijkt meteen waarom dat google account zo belangrijk is: dit is namelijk de enige manier om adressen en agenda&#8217;s te synchroniseren met de G1. Via Bluetooth wordt geen enkele uitwisselings-functie ondersteund, via de USB kabel blijk je alleen bij de externe <em>flash kaart</em> te kunnen en niet bij het telefoon geheugen zelf. Dat betekent vanzelf ook geen <a class="zem_slink" title="ISync" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/">iSync</a> vanuit <a class="zem_slink" title="Mac OS X" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OSX</a> en geen uitwisseling met Addressbook en <a class="zem_slink" title="ICal" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/ical/">iCal</a>.</p>
<p>Die synchronisatie zal dus via google moeten lopen, om dat te configureren is niet helemaal triviaal:</p>
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<li>Configuratie van iCal om agenda&#8217;s met <a class="zem_slink" title="Google Calendar" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com/calendar">Google Calendar</a> te synchroniseren gaat het best met programma <a title="Google Code project page Calaboration" href="http://code.google.com/p/calaboration/">Calaboration</a>.</li>
<li>Addressbook kan zelf met Google Contacts synchroniseren, mits je een <a class="zem_slink" title="iPhone" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone">iPhone</a> of <a class="zem_slink" title="IPod Touch" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch">iPod touch</a> aangesloten hebt (waarom?) maar er is een ingewikkelde <a title="Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or iPod Touch" href="http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/05/29/enable_google_contact_sync_without_an_iphone_or_ipod_touch-2.html">work around voor synchronisatie met Google zonder iPhone</a>.</li>
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<p>Op de SE werkte iSync juist vlekkeloos, alleen groepen van adressen en agenda&#8217;s werden niet ondersteund.</p>
<p><strong>E-mail</strong><br />
Op de G1 zijn er twee ingebouwde opties voor email: een gmail client die onberispelijk werk in alle opzichten, en een meer traditionele email client die je simpel kan configureren met je mail account gegevens. Het gebruik van IMAP over SSL is hier geen probleem, je kan de betreffende instellingen en poort nummers makkelijk invoeren. Er is alleen een groot gebrek aan deze mail client: er wordt geen IMAP IDLE ofwel push email ondersteund. De SE mail applicatie deed dat wel, al ruim twee jaar geleden (alleen was het daar nodig om voor de mailserver van XS4ALL een apart SSL certificaat te installeren).</p>
<p><strong>Web browser</strong><br />
De ingebouwde webbrowser is niets bijzonders, werkt zoals het hoort en zelfs de javascript ondersteuning is acceptabel. Alleen de user interface is te beperkt, navigatie gaat alleen redelijk via obscure toetsenbord commando&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Op de SE was een oudere versie van Opera Mobile meegeleverd, maar met wat kunst en vliegwerk bleek het goed mogelijk om de actuele 4.x versie te installeren. Die browser heeft zelfs zonder touch screen een prettigere user interface.</p>
<p>Verder is er ook slecht nieuws voor wat betreft de mobiele versie van Firefox, <a title="New Firefox 'Fennec' Alpha Arrives as Mobile Browser Wars Heat Up" href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/new-firefox-fen.html">Fennec</a>, die juist als eerste alpha release beschikbaar is. Het ziet er niet naar uit dat die ooit voor Android beschikbaar komt doordat Android alleen Java applicaties ondersteunt (en <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile/msg/ef777a097719f1dd">Fennec is in C/C++ ontwikkeld</a>).</p>
<p><strong>Muziek speler</strong><br />
De ingebouwde Walkman software van de SE was &#8211; na mijn iPod &#8211; een belediging, ik heb die nooit gebruikt. Sony heeft destijds een leuk apparaat voor cassettebandjes gemaakt, daar hadden ze het bij moeten laten.</p>
<p>De ingebouwde music player voor Android is een hele verademing. Prettig dat er niet te veel opties zijn, dat houdt het wel overzichtelijk. Alleen kan ik me geen uitgebreide bibliotheek in het ding voorstellen (maar dat gaat ook niet op 8G Flash, max. 16G).</p>
<p><strong>Camera</strong><br />
De 2M pixel camera van de SE is niet veel bijzonders. Maar wel beter dan de 3M pixel camera van de G1! Het beeld is vaag, met vale kleuren en de lichtgevoeligheid is zeer beperkt. Verder kan de G1 met de huidige Android versie geen filmpjes maken (de SE wel, al zijn die het aanzien niet waard). Waar de SE het met een simpele witte LED moets doen als verlichting, heeft de G1 helemaal niets. Donker is gewoon pech gehad.</p>
<p><strong>Android Market: applicaties</strong><br />
Dit is het grote verschil tussen de G1 (ok, en de iPhone) en de rest van de smart phones die momenteel beschikbaar zijn: de open toegang tot het <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/">platform</a> voor  ontwikkelaars om applicaties te ontwikkelen en aan de man te brengen. De tegenghaner van de Apple&#8217;s <a class="zem_slink" title="App Store" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/">App Store</a> is de Android Market.</p>
<p><span id="more-204"></span><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-214" title="android_droid" src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2009/02/android_droid.jpg" alt="android_droid" width="150" height="150" />Van de honderden beschikbare applicaties heb ik er een aantal geïnstalleerd en vluchtig bekeken.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Weer</strong>:<br />
<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.accuweather.android">AccuWeather</a> is een simpele widget die de weersverwachting geeft, ook heel aardig voor Nederland. <a href="http://www.bright.nl/buienradar-eerste-nederlandse-android-app"><br />
Buienradar</a> werkt zoals verwacht maar is niet bepaald elegant (de kaart is versmald weergegeven), je kan niet inzoomen en er wordt geen gebruik gemaakt van de locatiedata.</li>
<li><strong>Barcodes en Shopping</strong>:</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.biggu.shopsavvy">ShopSavvy</a> leest barcodes met je camera en zoekt de goedkoopste web- en locale shops. Na een aantal scans moet je met een Amerikaanse ZIP code registreren en ik kreeg resultaten in UK ponden of alleen Duitse webshops. Alternatieven zijn er genoeg.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.compareeverywhere">CompareEverywhere </a>doet min of meer het zelfde als ShopSavvy, alleen wat minder resultaten maar wel weer links naar reviews.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.snaptell.mobile.client.android">SnapTell </a>zoekt niet alleen op basis van barcode, maar je kan ook een foto van een boekomslag of CD maken om te zoeken. Dit werkt verbazend snel en nog goed ook. Vreemd is dat de foto rsultaten heel anders (uitgebreider) zijn dan de barcode resultaten van de zelfde CD.<br />
Wel aardig: <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.zxing.client.android">Barcode Scanner</a>, herkent niet alleen &#8220;gewone&#8221; barcodes maar ook <a href="http://www.qrcodes.nl/">QR Codes</a>, en laat meteen het gedecodeerde resultaat zien, verder kan je er niet veel mee.</li>
<li><strong>Locatie / sociaal netwerk</strong>: een <a href="http://brightkite.com/">BrightKite</a> client, <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.ifies.brightroid">Brightroid</a>, natuurlijk een must met een geo-device zoals de G1. Nog niet getest.</li>
<li>Twitter clients zijn er veel, ik heb alleen <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.twidroid">Twidroid</a> geprobeerd en die werkt goed, ook in de achtergond. Regelmatig worden nieuwe tweets opgehaald en als notoficatie in de boven balk van het scherm getoond.</li>
<li><strong>Podcasts, download en beluisteren</strong>:<br />
<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.snoggdoggler.android.doggcatcher">DoggCatcher </a>ondersteunt (nog) geen Atom feeds en faalt met RSS feeds ook vaak, teleurstellend.<br />
Het enige alternatief, <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/lamp.lime.sand">PodWeasel</a>, werkt nog slechter.<br />
Voor podcasts zijn we er nog niet (en itunes synchronisatie is ook niet mogelijk).</li>
<li><strong>Muziek</strong>: de ingebouwde player voldoet prima als basic player.<br />
<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.streamfurious.android.free">StreamFurious </a>speelt shoutcast (MP3) streams, er is een lijst van meest populaire stations, waaronder <a href="http://hypem.com/radio/">hypem radio</a>, nice!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.shazam.android">Shazam</a> herkent muziek die door de microfoon wordt opgepikt, werkt perfect voor niet al te obscure tracks.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/net.jjc1138.android.scrobbler">ScrobbleDroid </a>draait in de achtergrond en &#8220;scrobblet&#8221; de muziek die je afspeelt naar <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a> (je hebt daar dan wel een account nodig).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.tunescontrol">TunesRemote</a> belooft dat je er iTunes op een andere computer op het zelfde WiFi network mee kan bedienen. Dat is me niet gelukt.</li>
<li><strong>Video</strong></li>
<li>Youtube is een ingebouwde player die rechtstreeks youtube films afspeelt. Vreemd genoeg worden niet alle youtube films correct afgespeeld, waarschijnlijk doordat de bitrate of afmetingen te hoog liggen. <strong><br />
</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.appdroid.videoplayer">Video Player</a> speelt video van de externe flash card, alleen formaten die door de G1 ondersteund worden.</li>
<li><strong>Locatie/ GPS</strong>:<a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.hubrisware.ridetrac"><br />
RideTrac</a> volgt de weg die je aflegt (per fiets) en legt die vast in GPS coordinaten. Een test binnen de bebouwde kom gaf me een grillig pad, met vreemde zijsprongen, waardoor de afgelegde weg niet klopte en bovendien door het heen en weer springen kunstmatig lang was.<br />
Een simpelere applicatie, <a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/net.armooo.locationlog">Location Log</a>, kan punten vastleggen maar daar kan je verolgens vrijwel niets mee (export functie moet nog komen).</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.qype.com/?p=443">QypeRadar</a> zoekt naar bestemmingen in de omgeving en toont beschrijvingen en reviews (restaurant, museum, park, etc).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.android.panoramio">Panoramio</a> toont foto&#8217;s die in de omgeving gemomen zijn en plaatst ze op de kaart (google maps).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.wikitude">Wikitude</a> gaat een stap verder en toont in het camera beeld van de G1 ingetekende contouren van bezienswaardigheden, als een soort radar beeld. Dat werkt uiteraard alleen goed buiten bij vrij zicht op de betreffende objecten.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.android.stardroid">Sky Map </a>geeft op het scherm de sterrenbeelden weer die je in die richting aan de hemel kan zien staan. Leuke applicatie, werkt heel redelijk. Wel moet je &#8216;s-nachts je scherm minder helder zetten om de echte sterren nog te kunnen zien!</li>
<li><strong>Camera</strong></li>
<li>De ingebouwde Camera applicatie is heel simpel en heeft een zeer matige user interface.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.ap.SnapPhoto">SnapPhoto </a>heeft een iets betere interface en gebruikt de ingebouwde &#8220;motion detector&#8221; om op een moment te wachten dat je de camera relatief stil houdt, geen luxe met die slechte lichtgevoeligheid. Dit is de enige applicatie die de G1 heeft laten crashen (de GPS module en camera bleven actief, met zeer hoog stroomgebuik tot gevolg).</li>
<li><strong>Computer / netwerk tools:</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.connectbot">ConnectBot</a> is een volledige terminal applicatie met SSH ondersteuning, werkt prefect!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.ap.DroidFtp">DroidFTP</a> is een ftp applicatie, nog niet getest.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/ale.portScandroid">Port Scandroid</a> een trage maar werkende portscanner (TCP/UDP).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.donpark.whatismyip">WhatIsMyIp?</a> toont de toiegekende IP adressen op de verschillende netwerken (3G, WiFi).</li>
<li><strong>Utilities</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/tv.studer.smssync">SMS Backup</a> stuurt ontvangen en verstuurde SMS&#8217;en naar een gmail account, waar ze onder een label (&#8216;SMS&#8217; default) bewaard worden. Handig! Wel vreemd dat er apart met gmail verbonden wordt, je moet je account gegevens invullen bij setup, terwijl je al een gmail account had geconfigureerd in je Android phone.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.codetastrophe.cellfinder">Cellfinder</a> met welke mobiele operator en antenne ben ik verbonden? Meer een speeltje dan echt nuttig.</li>
<li>De <a href="http://wegwijzer.ing.nl/">ING Wegwijzer</a> geeft de locatie van geld automaten van ING, maar ook concurrerende banken aan. Op de kaart, of in de &#8220;radar view&#8221; met de camera. Verstandig om ook de concurrenten te tonen, anders was dit een nogal waardeloze applicatie geweest, nu is het juist zeer de moiete waard als je in een vreemde omgeving geld wil pinnen.</li>
</ul>
<p>Al deze uitbreidingen maken Android tot een tot de verbeelding sprekend systeem. Je kan duidelijk merken dat de ontwikkeling nog in het beginstadium zit, zowel van Android zelf, als van de meeste Market applicaties. Verrassend volwassen uitschieters hebben vaak al een langer verleden op een ander platform, een voorbeeld is Shazam dat op de iPhone al veel succes had.</p>
<p>Door zijn openheid is Android echt een systeem om veel mee te experimenteren. De keerzijde is dat je &#8211; zeker in dit stadium &#8211; ook veel <em>moet</em> experimenteren om dingen echt werkend te krijgen.</p>
<p>Als je dat niet wilt of daar de tijd niet voor hebt kan je beter een iPhone kiezen. Dat geldt zeker als je een mooi design en consequente user interface belangrijk vind, de HTC G1 is echt grof en onbehouwen in vergelijking met de iPhone.</p>
<p>Voor een veel dieper gaande vergelijking met de iPhone: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/01/perspectives-ars-community-compares-iphone-and-android-g1.ars">Perspectives: Ars community compares iPhone and Android G1</a> (arstechnica.com). Meer vergelijking en een mooie <a href="http://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2009/01/24/t-mobile-g1-review-dit-is-nog-maar-het-begin/">review</a> (frankwatching.com).</p>
<p>Zo, en nu eens gaan kijken hoe je <a href="http://andbook.anddev.org/">applicaties voor Android kan ontwikkelen</a>!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although last year&#8217;s NextWeb conference had good coverage in the blogosphere, this year everything has been professionalized around the yearly event. One of these improvements is the nextweb.org, which has become a central blog site where professional bloggers keep up with the developments around new internet ventures. You can read about all noteworthy and sometimes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-161" title="Next Web" src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2008/05/dsc00937-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Although last year&#8217;s NextWeb conference had good coverage in the blogosphere, this year everything has been professionalized around the yearly event. One of these improvements is the <a title="The NextWeb blog" href="http://thenextweb.org/">nextweb.org</a>, which has become a central blog site where professional bloggers keep up with the developments around new internet ventures.</p>
<p>You can read about all noteworthy and sometimes even anecdotal events there, so I limit myself ot some personal observations at this place.</p>
<p>Noteworthy was <a title="The NextWeb blog" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/03/keynote-adeo-ressi/">the first keynote</a> by <a href="http://www.adeoressi.com/about/">Adeo Ressi</a>, &#8220;<em>Get Funding for Your Dream</em>&#8220;. According to him, now is the best time ever to start a new venture. But at the same time, there are many dangers luring in VC funding, which you should be aware of.</p>
<p>One of the most central statements: you ore strictly on your own for reviewing the contract terms when it come to closing a deal. Your legal advisor will be honest with you up to the point when you sing a contract with them, as they have just one incentive left afterwards: close the deal and get the percentage of the value you negotiated earlier. Every delay is just wate of time &#8211; so forget about honest advice on VC terms.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the peculiar situation we have with real estate brokers and financial advisers over here: these people all work for a percentage of the deal, so nobody is at your side when it comes to choosing the real best option, let alone a careful review of the terms.</p>
<p>The rest of the talk was about what to expect when going through the movements, from choosing investors, preparing your references (they <em>will</em> be interviewed, even the unlikely ones, and should <em>always</em> be unconditional positive about you) and, indeed, bad terms vs acceptable ones.</p>
<p>Interesting &#8211; and enlightening &#8211; it looks like we are doing pretty well regarding our own startup <a title="Twones - your music timeline, everywhere" href="http://www.twones.com">Twones.com</a>.</p>
<p>The <a title="The NextWeb blog" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/03/leah-culver-and-the-magical-unicorn-a-pownce-story/">keynote by Leah Culver</a> of <a href="http://pownce.com/">Pownce</a> was charming and gave most of all insight in the networking aspects of starting a online business. Her suggestion to talk more about the how and why around <a href="http://oauth.net/">OAuth</a> was not accepted by the audience. Regretful, I would have liked a quick introduction in this emerging standard as an alternative to all those proprietary solutions for all those social networks.</p>
<p>Nova Spivack of <a href="http://www.twine.com">Twine</a> held the keynote I was looking forward to the most. This time, surprisingly, the audience chose for an introduction into the <em>semantic web</em>, rather than a presentation about Twine.</p>
<p>And this <a title="The NextWeb blog" href="http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/03/nova-spivack-the-semantic-web-as-an-open-and-less-evil-web/">presentation was well done</a>. No new or surprising elements for those who follow <a title="Minding the Planet" href="http://www.mindingtheplanet.net/">Nova Spivack&#8217;s blog</a> (his &#8220;<em>CEO blog</em>&#8221; at Radar Networks), but I am sure that many people in the audience will have &#8220;<em>got it</em>&#8220;. And from personal experience I know how difficult it is to explain the relevance of the highly abstract and often complex elements of the semantic web.</p>
<p>What I liked was the perspective in which Nova places the semweb:</p>
<p><strong>Tagging approach</strong><br />
pro: easy to do<br />
con: easy to do (inconsistence, no &#8220;<em>meaning</em>&#8220;)</p>
<p><strong>Statistical approach (Google)</strong><br />
Pro: pure mathematical algorithms<br />
Con: no understanding of the content</p>
<p><strong>Linguistic approach</strong><br />
pro: true language understanding<br />
con: computational intensive, scales badly, one domain at a time</p>
<p><strong>Semantic Web approach (radar networks, dbpedia, metaweb, talis)</strong><br />
pro: more precise queries (metadadata)<br />
con: lack of tools, who creates the metadata?</p>
<p><strong>Artificial Intelligence approach (cycorp)</strong><br />
pro: this is the holy grail!<br />
con: never finished and always outdated (the holy grail)<br />
Now the Semantic Web approach is in the middle:<br />
Software needs some improvement and you need metadata<br />
But: advantages add up to a network effect; if I enhance my data, I get the benefit inr eturn that my data now can be linked automatically in all kind of related contexts, especially those I never could imagine myself.</p>
<p>And this is taking off at an increasing speed, see the updated graph on open, linked data on the web.</p>
<p><a href="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2008/04/linked-data-spivack-nextweb.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-153" style="float: right;" title="linked data spivack-nextweb" src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2008/04/linked-data-spivack-nextweb-150x150.png" alt="The Growing Linked Data Universe" width="150" height="150" /></a><br />
Characteristics of the semantic web approach:</p>
<ul>
<li>Make data smarter vs make software smarter</li>
<li>Metadata vs AI &amp; linguistics</li>
<li>Open data enables network effects</li>
</ul>
<p>Approaches:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bottom up (you need to learn RDF and such) &#8211; this is not going to happen (note: basic semweb technologies exist since around 2000).</li>
<li>Top down: software builds all the RDF and OWL and stuff for you. Not surprisingly, this where Twine aims at.</li>
</ul>
<p>Some notes on the practical side. Nova dislikes the term Semantic Web as being to vague, &#8220;Web of Data&#8221; would be more appropriate. And then, already an old theme, he adapts the popuplar but heavily overloaded term &#8220;web 2.0&#8243; to mean &#8220;the second decade of the web&#8221; en so, web 3.0 as the third decade, roughly 2010 &#8211; 2020. So we got a timeline. And right now the early adopters are emerging, the first killer apps will be launched roughly between now and the next two years.</p>
<p>Finally, a critical not on business models: how do protect my business if all data has to be open and free?</p>
<p>The bottom line is taht every entrepreneur needs to decide for themselves, but in the long run people will move away from closed environments where they only put effort in, without being able to get the value back of their own data, let alone benefit of the network effect.</p>
<p>Again, this is an area were Twones will shine: our business model scale along with the network effect, the more open and the more shared each user&#8217;s data is, the more value everyone will get out of it.</p>
<p>Oh, and I got my private <a href="http://www.twine.com">Twine</a> invite (looks good, many thanks Nova!).</p>
<p>Got curious about Twones?</p>
<p>We will lanuch an invitation only beta at the end of the month, you can register for the beta waiting list at <a href="http://www.twones.com">http://www.twones.com</a></p>
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		<title>From Microformats to RDF</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2007/10/18/from-microformats-to-rdf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Microformats vs. RDF: How Microformats Relate to the Semantic Web. Indeed, microformats are not an alternative for RDF, not even a &#8220;poor man&#8217;s version&#8221;. But that was not a design goal at any time. What&#8217;s more: microformats are no first class semantic web objects in any way either. Rather, they are the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to <a href="http://www.semanticfocus.com/blog/entry/title/microformats-vs-rdf-how-microformats-relate-to-the-semantic-web/" title="Microformats vs. RDF: How Microformats Relate to the Semantic Web">Microformats vs. RDF: How Microformats Relate to the Semantic Web</a>.</p>
<p>Indeed, microformats are not an alternative for RDF, not even a &#8220;poor man&#8217;s version&#8221;. But that was not a design goal at any time. What&#8217;s more: microformats are no first class semantic web objects in any way either. Rather, they are the simplest imaginable solution for semantically correct markup, limited to the most common data formats out there.</p>
<p>To rephrase the <a href="http://microformats.org/about/" title="About microformats">microformats charter</a>, they want to be the common man&#8217;s solution, aimed at the well intending <em>webmaster crowd</em>. As such, microformats can be hugely successful (analogue to the &#8220;html as tag soup&#8221; success story). Fine.</p>
<p>Next, as we end up having millions of valid items of <em>hCard</em>, <em>hReview </em>and what not on the web, there is GRDDL to instantly promote all this content in full fledged RDF.</p>
<p>The good news is that we have all components currently available &#8211; many microformats are auto-generated from well designed CMS templates &#8211; and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec" title="GRDDL spec @W3C">GRDDL is a Proposed Recommendation  since 6 July 2007</a>.</p>
<p>What we&#8217;re waiting for, is a business need to discover, transform and aggregate all of this data. I would be surprised if nobody is working on this, right now. Google, or a Google killer?</p>
<p>Bottom line: the semantic web has been lacking real world content for too long (not withstanding DBPedia and Freebase and such) and real world applications <em>for the common man</em>. Microformats can and will have a place in advocacy for this large target audience, people who grasp html and basic data constructs, but who are not interested in graph theory.</p>
<p>This audience will only jump on the bandwagon if they can instantly understand the intent from <em>view source</em> inspection. Compare the success of RSS 2.0 over the semantically superior (but more complex, RDF based) RSS 1.0 version.</p>
<p>In the end it will just not matter, most content will be &#8220;good enough&#8221; to be useful for the semweb (through GRDDL transformations and screen scraping), just like today&#8217;s html is good enough to be rendered, in some way, in our web browsers. By that time we will have a load of other problems, like semantic spam, the need for provenance tracking and trust levels for semantic information. But that is another story&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Update: </strong> <a href="http://www.semanticreport.com/">Semantic Report </a>writes about  					<a href="http://www.semanticreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=54&amp;Itemid=1&amp;ed=2" title="Article by Alice LaPlante">Using Microformats to Get Started with the Semantic Web</a>. So, there then!<a href="http://www.semanticreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=54&amp;Itemid=1&amp;ed=2" title="Article by Alice LaPlante"><br />
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		<title>Google buys Panoramio</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2007/05/31/google-buys-panoramio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 16:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spanish startup Panoramio.com has been acquired by Google. This is not very surprising, as they already were linked very intimately with Google Earth. For those who don&#8217;t know Panoramio yet, it is a clean, nice photo sharing site. Its specialty is that every photo is geographically marked. Select photos appear on Google Earth and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The Spanish startup <a href="http://panoramio.com">Panoramio.com</a> has been acquired by Google. This is not very surprising, as they already were linked very intimately with Google Earth.</p>
<p><a href="http://panoramio.com" title="Panoramio home"><img src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2007/05/logo-panoramio.gif" title="Panoramio" alt="Panoramio" align="right" border="0" /></a>For those who don&#8217;t know Panoramio yet, it is a clean, nice photo sharing site. Its specialty is that every photo is geographically marked. Select photos appear on Google Earth and the site itself is organized around Google Maps, where every location marks available photos with an icon or a small thumbnail.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/blog/google-agrees-to-acquire-panoramio/" title="Google agrees to acquire Panoramio">announcement in the blog post</a> does not provide many specific details, but for now not much will change:</p>
<blockquote><p>For now, our user interface will not change; accounts, urls, features… We will keep working for Panoramio as a team, but this time using Google infrastructure as Panoramio further integrates into Google’s mapping technologies. We will also keep answering e-mails directly as much as possible.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, and by the way, they also have an <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/blog/132/" title="Panoramio API released: Display photos from Panoramio on your own website">API</a> &#8211; released just earlier this month&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Google Analytics updated</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2007/05/09/google-analytics-updated-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 09:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Google announced the new, updated version of their Analytics tool. Under the hood, most data is captured just like the current version. But the user interface and data presentation is a whole different story. A flash demo shows many excellent tools to analyze trends and zoom in to visitor navigation paths, decision funnels, trends [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday Google announced the new, updated version of their Analytics tool.<br />
<a href="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2007/05/analytics-dashboard1.jpg" title="Google Analytics screenshot"><img src="http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/2007/05/analytics-dashboard1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Google Analytics screenshot" style="border: medium none ; float: right" /></a><br />
Under the hood, most data is captured just like the current version. But the user interface and data presentation is a whole different story. A <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/media/report_tour/feature_tour.html">flash demo</a> shows many excellent tools to analyze trends and zoom in to visitor navigation paths, decision funnels, trends over time and all you could possibly want to know about keyword conversion (organic as well as paid-for Adwords).</p>
<p>The basis for this overhaul has been the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/here-comes-measure-map.html">acquisition of MeasureMap</a> in 2006.</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks every current Analytics account will be migrated to the new version, so most of us need to wait in anticipation of a much, much better tool. Again, Google sets the industry standard at a very high level, though times for the competition to catch up.</p>
<p>Read the <a href="http://analytics.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-version-of-google-analytics.html">official announcement on the Analytics blog</a>.</p>
<p>(on a side note: I tried writing this review with <em>WordPress plugin</em> <a href="http://structuredblogging.org/">Structured Blogging</a>. This review would be marked up according to the <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview">hReview</a> microformat standard. It didn&#8217;t quite work out, maybe html is not allowed in the review body. More to come&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>Google Maps with KML data</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2007/04/13/google-maps-with-kml-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote about the introduction of a new feature for the Google Maps API: you can now use the same definitions file format as with Google Earth (technically speaking this is the KML 2.1 format). All cool and neat, so I did a little experiment to try it out. And guess what: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some time ago <a href="http://squio.nl/blog/2007/03/29/google-geo-day-1/">I wrote</a> about the introduction of a new feature for the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API">Google Maps API</a>: you can now use the same definitions file format as with Google Earth (technically speaking this is the <a href="http://earth.google.com/kml/">KML 2.1 format</a>).</p>
<p>All cool and neat, so I did a little experiment to try it out. And guess what: it didn&#8217;t work! No error messages, just my KML file was completely ignored.</p>
<p>Well, it appears that KML file must be accessible for Google to read and parse; in other words: it is not the client side API (Javascript) which reads the KML, but the Google service. Apparently what they do is: parse the file, calculate the correct view port and then send over all geo data, back to the client API.</p>
<p>As I hosted the file on my local computer (http://localhost/), this did not work. Duh!</p>
<p>This feature was not immediately obvious to me from the API documentation. And it might not be strictly necessary: as long as the KML file is hosted on the same server as the client HTML, the file could just be retrieved through <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> (the same origin policy would be satisfied). Performance might be an issue, though, as XML Parsing in the browser is not very efficient. And setting the viewport for the map would require another round trip and delay.</p>
<p>Conclusion: be sure to host your KML file such that it is accessible for Google (over http), otherwise it will just not work.</p>
<pre>var geoXml = new GGeoXml('http://www.yourhost.com/geo/map.kml');</pre>
<p>[ratings]</p>
<div class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/googlemaps" rel="tag">googlemaps</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/api" rel="tag"> api</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/geo" rel="tag"> geo</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/kml" rel="tag"> kml</a></div>
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		<title>Twitter vs Jabber</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2007/04/12/twitter-vs-jabber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you might know, Twitter is the hype of last months. Everybody and their dog are updating their current activities like crazy. As a spin off, many secondary purposes are being created on top of the public Twitter API. This reminds me of the old days when Jabber was started as an open IM protocol. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://squio.nl/blog/wp-content/twitter.png' alt='Twitter logo' style="float: right" />As you might know, <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> is the hype of last months. Everybody and their dog are updating their current activities like crazy.</p>
<p>As a spin off, many secondary purposes are being created on top of the public <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation">Twitter API</a>. </p>
<p>This reminds me of the old days when <a href="http://www.jabber.org/">Jabber</a> was started as an open IM protocol. Lots of geeky applications sprung into life, like monitoring incoming email (headers), keeping an eye on your computer logs and such. Now the Jabber protocol (<a href="http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/">XMPP</a>) is being used as the basis for a couple of IM platforms, like Google Talk. Many of those early applications are now official a <a href="http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/">XMPP extension</a>. The platform has matured, but lost its appeal to the geeky crowd.</p>
<p>Today, these kinds of applications are being built on Twitter by the dozens.<br />
Without any effort, I found lots and lots of them. I estimate these are less than 5% of all Twitter applications out there, so the list is really getting huge.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.monitwitter.com/">MoniTwitter</a> (answering one simple question: What&#8217;s your website doing?)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.twitterisweird.com/">TwitterIsWeird</a> (displays pairs of twitter quotes in comic balloons)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pingtwitter.com/">PingTwitter</a> (update Twitter when you publish a new blog post)</li>
<li><a href="http://twitterchat.com/">TwitterChat</a> (2-way live shoutbox-twitter integration)</li>
<li><a href="http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/">Twitterific</a> (Mac OSX client application)</li>
</ul>
<p>And then we have the <a href="http://www.twitterforum.com/">Twitterforum</a>, an unofficial Twitter related discussions site, listing even more <a href="http://www.twitterforum.com/page2/page2.html">twitter related applications and sites</a>.</p>
<p>So does the Twitter API popularity have to do with its incredible simplicity? And its pluggability for the protypical <em>web 2.0 platform</em> (yes, it has a JSON interface)?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure, but I hacked togeter my own little contribution to this madness in just half an hour: <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8454">Browse with Twitter</a>, a <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748">Greasemonkey</a> script for Firefox.</p>
<blockquote><p>Update your twitter.com status with a message &#8220;Browsing: [document.title]&#8221; whenever you load a web page.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fair warning: don&#8217;t install this script if you do value your privacy (or at least restrict it to the sites you explicitly want to show up on twitter).</p>
<p>[ratings]<br /><div class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/twitter" rel="tag">twitter</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/jabber" rel="tag"> jabber</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/im" rel="tag"> im</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/greasemonkey" rel="tag"> greasemonkey</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/userscript" rel="tag"> userscript</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/xmpp" rel="tag"> xmpp</a></div>
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		<title>Microsummary plugin goes commercial?</title>
		<link>http://squio.nl/blog/2007/04/09/microsummary-plugin-goes-commercial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not. But the other day I got a Google Alert, which learned me that the Microsummary Plugin made it into a commercial WordPress bundle. I&#8217;m surprised that this business exists, because you will still have to upload and manage the whole shebang onto a PHP and MySQL enabled hosting account. And those of us [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, not.<br />
But the other day I got a <em>Google Alert</em>, which learned me that the <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/WP/microsummary/">Microsummary Plugin</a> made it into a commercial WordPress bundle.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m surprised that this business exists, because you will still have to upload and manage the whole shebang onto a PHP and MySQL enabled hosting account. And those of us who are able to do so, are surely capable of installing WordPress. Maybe the added value is in the selection of bundled plugins, I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>Anyway, there&#8217;s not much of documentation (e.g. it&#8217;s not clear if all 100+ bundled plugins are enabled by default). Just noticed the plugin is part of their <a href="http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/new-turbocharged-release-wordpress-213-new-editions-of-turbocharged/">list</a>.</p>
<p>And their fair warning to their customers:</p>
<blockquote><p>[...] For instance, many core WordPress files got changed in the course of the new WordPress release. The same can be said about all the bundled enhancements.</p>
<p>This has one big, important consequence: you must upgrade carefully. Simply uploading the new files and replacing the old ones won’t cut it. You need to remove all old files before uploading the new ones; that will help you avoid lingering stale/old files, which could cause WordPress to malfunction. Oh, and don’t forget to back up any files you’ve changed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hmm&#8230;</p>
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